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Holden is doing very well. He’s getting A’s in everything except science. We had a rocky start and are playing catch-up. But, who gives a frig, I’ll tell you. He’s still taking piano lessons. He’s joined 5th grade strings – violin. He’s in the Drama Club. He’s taking Saturday art classes at Michigan State University. The kid’s a monster genius and no one is going to tell me any different.

My boss asked me what I was doing for Thanksgiving. I said I was going to my Gramma’s. “You know,” I said, “going upstairs.”

I like living here though. I love my Cottage. I painted a wall orange. Like the perfume Happy – that box? It’s that color. And, it DOES make me happy. Everytime I walk downstairs and walk into my Cottage, I smile!

We are Happy.

The other night I was reading Holden his little devotion that we do before bedtime. It was about life’s ups and downs and how God is always there for you. I figured this would be the perfect opportunity to talk about the divorce! That if he had to say anything THIS would be the time. At the end they ask is YOU are having any ups and downs in your life right now. He says, “Yeah…” and shakes his little head forlornly like. I said, “What, buddy? You can tell me anything!” He says, “My loose molar is really bringing me down right now.”

He was dead serious.

These are the issues that bring him down. I will not lie to you: I immediately thought, We Are The BEST PARENTS EVER!

We are.

Holden and I saw New Moon with on Friday 11/20. Holden was so geeked about seeing this film on its OPENING DAY that we could barely keep him in his seat. We got there an hour before the show so that we could be the FIRST ones in line. I was so pleased that I could give this kid a pleasure that was so simple. He is such an easygoing dude. He loved it, of course, and is half-way thru the book. Again.

I had gone with my girlfriends to the midnight show. I’d never done that before. It was almost as exciting as seeing Justin Timberlake in concert. I’m not even lying. I was effing stoked. And, it was what it was. I didn’t have high expectations. Twilight, really, wasn’t that good. The books REALLY weren’t that great. Yet I am in a total choke hold. I am beholden to this fad.

The thing about this movie is this: Jacob.

I was never on Team Jacob. I am an Edward girl all the way. I mean, really? Vampires are Hot.

But when Edward takes his shirt off, though he sparkles in the sun, there just isn’t much there. I mean he’s built an all. But, he’s a skinny built guy.

Jacob? Holy crap. It was like porn for me. The kid had his shirt off for almost the whole movie and was I ever grateful.

After the show, my girlfriend’s and I stood around (at 2:45 a.m.) and kibitzed about the movie. They said how they were a little disappointed in the story line and the stuff they changed from the book…

I was like, “Storyline? Wha?? I quit thinking after that dude took his shirt off!” Those abs changed the whole landscape of the movie for me. It stopped being a love story and started being a lust story. Mine. And, you know? Whatever, okay? I know he’s like 16 or whatever. Suck it. God made him that way, and God let him be in that movie. And, God let him take his shirt off. And, God let me look.

On this Thanksgiving Day when we sit around the table and say the three things we are thankful for, I’m not going to be the least sorry when I say, “Wherewolf abs.”